Game apparatus



A. ALEXANDER.

GAME APPARATUS. APPLlCATl-ON FILED NOV. 22. I92.

Patented. Muyv 16, 1922.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1922.

Application filed November 22, 1920. Serial No. 425,849.

To all whom t 77mg/ concer/1t:

Be it known that I, ARTI-Inn ALEXANDER, a citizen of the United States,and a resi.- dent ot the city oi' New York, borough oi Brooklyn, in thecounty of TSings and State of New York, have invented a new and lmprovedGame Apparatus, of which the following is a description.

My invention relates to a game apparatus in which stationary shootersand movable targets are employed.

The general object of 'the invention is to provide a novel gameapparatusof such a character that a large number of players may engagein a contest and in which ball targets or equivalent target elements aredislodged from a traveling supporting structure, accumulated dislodgedtargets factoring in determining the winner of the game.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis speci- ;tication, it heilig understood that the drawings are merelyillustrative oi one example of the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a game apparatus embodying my invention,parts being broken away;

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of a shooter that may be employed;

Figure 3 is a vertical section as indicated by the line 3--3, Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of a portion of the apparatuson an enlarged scale;

Figure 5 is a detail in vertical section .illustrating a supportingmeans that may be employed 'for the traveling target carrier.

ln carrying out my invention in accordance with theillustrated example alixed table 1() is provided which preferably is in the Form of a roundtable and spaced from the table and in fixed position is a combined railand gun mount structure 1 1 which preferably, in accordance with theround form of table 10, is of annular form and concentric with saidtable. The table 10 when of round form has a central opening 13 toaccommodate an attendant. The table is Jformed into compartments whichare radially positioned in the case of a round table, the compartmentsbeing 'formed by an inner wall 14, common to all the compartments, sidewalls 15, and a front wall 16.

The traveling carrier 12 has standards 17 or equivalent supportscup-shaped at the top to receive balls 1S so that the attendant mayplace a ball 0n each standard, the standards advantageously in practicecorresponding with the number of partitionsf The outer lixed structure11 is also divided into compartments corresponding with those of thetable 10, the compartments being delined by an inner wall 19, an outerwall 20, and side walls 21.

Shooters are provided on the outer structure 11 at each compartmentthereof. Each shooter 22 may consist of a barrel 01"' suitable lengthhaving a. plunger 23 therein provided with a plunger head Q4 at theliront, said plunger being acted upon by a roil spring 25 secured at itsrear end at 25 to the gun at the rear o'l the bore thereof and securedat its 'liront end as at 25 to the head 24.-. Thus, the spring and head24 are held positively within the barrel. Any suitable iirameworlr 26may be provided tor table 10 and iixed structure 11. The game isintended more particularly for use summer resorts and in other publicplaces and the structure will have a height so that players may use theapparatus while standing.

The structure 11 is spaced from the adjacent edge oit the table 10 asu'liicient distance to provide an intervening slot through which thestandards 17 rise to a suitcient height above the table top and thepartition walls to cause the balls 18 to travel in a plane to bedislodged by impact ot a plunger The target carrier 12 is in the form ofa iiat ring beneath and closing the space between the table 10 and thestructure 11.

'The traveling target larrier 12 whichV is manually turned is supportedon rollers that it may be turned with iliacility and continue to moveunder its momentum and :ulditional rollers are advantageously providedat the side edges ot said carrier to prevent displacement oi the carrierin its own plane. ln the illustrated iform vertical rollers 2T, 27 areprovided near each side edge, said rollers turning on horizontal pins orscrews 29 on blocks 3() secured respectively to the structure 11 andtable 1() adjacent to the slot presented therebetween, said blocks beingsecured by vertical bolts 31, 31a on which the horizontal rollers 2S, 2Sare provided at the side edges of the carrier 12. 32 are nuts of bolts31.

With a game apparatus constructed as described a player is stationed ateach shooter 09 and therefore opposite a table compartment, the objectof each player being to dislodge the successive balls 1.8 trom thetravelingl carrier as the balls pass individual shooters. The ballsdislodged by a given shooter will be retained in the compartment in linetherewith and said compartments may have means factoring in the count ofthe gaine,

there beingshown live depressions in eachv compartment and therefore toeach shooter and these depressions may as indicated in Figure 4 be`given different values; thus the pair ot depressions nearest theshooter having for example the value lit), the tvvo distant depressions,the value of 50, While the centrally disposed depression may have thevalue of 100.

One table compartment indicated as at A in Figure l and thecorresponding compartment B of the outer structure ll may respectivelybe tree of the depressions and shooter and a second attendant may bestationed adjacent the compartment B at the outside ot structure ll forcollectingthe entrance Vtee for partaking' in the game and generallylooking after the Convenience of the players or affording" any neededguidance or instruction to the players.

rlhe shooters Q2 in the preterred form of the invention are stationary,the same being pivotally mounted on gun mounts 22 on the structure llbut obviously portable shooters may be employed.

I would state in conclusion that while the illustrated exampleconstitutes a practical embodiment ot' my invention, do not limit myselfstrictly to the mechanical details herein illustrated, since manifestlythe same can be considerably varied Without departure from the spirit otthe invention 4as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

An apparatus of the class described in- @hiding` a table, a structureadjacent to said table at which players may station themselves, saidstructure and table being` spaced to present a slot therebetween,shooters mounted on said structure and disposed toward the table, atraveling target carrier in the form ot a -iat ring beneath and torminga closureof said slot, said ring extending beneath both the saidstructure and said table, and rollers on the table-andren said structureat the under side, on which rollers the said ring` is supported at eachside laterall y' of said slot, and target` supports on said carrierbetween the table andsaid structureadapted to receive targets torcarrying the targets past the shooters between said shooters and thetable, said shooters adapted to be projected into the path of movementof the targets for dislodging the latter.

ARTHUR ALEXANDER.

